9-24-2012

Hello everyone! Got a story about some crazy travel, and then I gotta get going. Had two appointments in a city called Dessau, and we were on exchanges, so I was trying to lead us around. We were on bikes and it was gonna be like a 30 minute ride or so to the second one. Then as we came out of the first appointment, we found that one of the tires had died. We weren't really sure what to do at this point. We considered a few different options, but decided to walk back to where we might be able to catch a bus or something. We then walked the twenty minutes or so back to the main trainstation. There we spent some confused minutes trying to figure out the bus and tram system, and tried to do some guessing as to what we could catch on the way back. We then hopped on a bus, bought a ticket, and put our trust in God. Then the bus wasn't even announcing the stop names as we got to them, so we nearly missed our stop. Then we made it off, nearly couldn't find the guy's place, had to ask some guy leaning out his window for directions, and finally found the place. Remember, we are pushing our bikes around this whole time as well. We meet with the guy with the little time we have left, and leave rather quickly, because we needed to catch another bus. We finally got there, realized it was a tram, and waited for it to come. We had barely made it speedwalking. Then we almost thought we couldn't take our bikes with us and had a small moment of panic before we realized that the further car down allowed bikes. Then we took it down to where we should get off for the southern train station. We had gone to the southern, instead of the main, in hopes of giving us more time. Turned out we got off one stop too far. We quickly started heading back, and jogged the last bit. We were worried because the train should be getting there any minute, and we had to clear to the other side of the tracks before the train got close enough that they closed the gates. We got there in time, and took a look at the bus schedule. Turned out we were on the wrong side of the tracks. We nearly ran back down the platform, crossed back across the tracks, and walked up that side of the platform. We sat there panting for a moment, and I sat processing what I had seen on the train schedule on the other platform. Suddenly I realized something was wrong. I pulled out the map to realized that the train we needed didn't even come through the southern train station. At this point we kinda gave up on catching our first train and aimed our sights on the next one. :P We caught the tram back up to the main station, and caught the later train home. Crazy day. Lots of fun. :) Anyway! Don't have time to talk abou anything else. Have a wonderful week everyone. Trust your Lord. He is mighty to save. Keep close to Him. - Elder Michael Miles